The 2025 Jubilee is not just a passing event or a pilgrimage with the Pope; it’s an invitation to open the windows of the soul to hope, forgiveness, and the future. This Jubilee year is a great “spiritual reset” that the Church celebrates every 25 years. In 2025, the theme is “Pilgrims of Hope.” Whether or not you travel to Rome for the Jubilee, you can participate by praying, forgiving, looking at the world with compassion, and sharing what you have received. Young people from all over the world have already set out. What about you?

1. What is the Jubilee?

2. And what's this about a Jubilee of Youth?

3. How can you join the Jubilee, whether or not you go to Rome?

4. Young people from around the world are getting moving

5. What does winning Jubilee grace look like?

1. What is the Jubilee?

It’s not just an excuse to organize group trips (...though it's that too), nor is it a Church marketing event. The Jubilee is a year for opening windows to hope, forgiveness, and the future.

Its roots are biblical: every 50 years, debts were forgiven, land was returned, and slaves were set free. A reset.

The Church continues to celebrate it every 25 years, as a kind of great “spiritual reset” for everyone.

The theme of the 2025 Jubilee is “Pilgrims of Hope.” We're not tourists or spectators, but pilgrims, people who walk together, even without having all the answers.

👉 If you want to understand the meaning behind it all, take a look at this article.

2. And what's this about a Jubilee of Youth?

The Pope is inviting young people around the world to Rome from July 28 to August 3. It's going to be a life-changing week, through prayer, time in the heart of the Church, and exchanged with young people life you. It's a week to receive many gifts and give thanks.

No worries if you can't go. The Jubilee of Youth isn't just a Roman event. It's an invitation to live with your heart more wide-awake, more open to God, more connected to what really matters.

3. How can you participate in the Jubilee, whether or not you go to Rome?

Here's the good news: you don't need to pack a suitcase for this. Here are a few tips for participating in the Jubilee from wherever you are now:

Open space for God in the day-to-day

What if it's not so much about doing more as letting Him act?

Don't get complicated. It can be as simple as a moment of silence, a glance toward Heaven, a special effort on your last exam, spending time with a line from a Gospel...

Dare to see like He does

There are many ways to look at the world, from judgement to fear... to mercy. Ask God to teach you to look through his eyes.

Which means looking with compassion, truth, and hope.

Pray with the Church

Join a universal network! There are millions of people praying for the same thing as you over the next few days.

👉 Unite yourself to the Church's intentions here

🎧 Or check out these audios

Ask for forgiveness... for real

None of this, "Anyway, I haven't committed any really big sins." All of us need reconciliation with God, with others, and with ourselves. The Jubilee is an open door. Why not walk through?

Not sure where to begin? Here are some questions to help you get started

Share what you've received

How? You know best. Maybe it's an honest conversation you've been putting off, an act of kindness, or an invitation to Mass.

Hope is contagious, but someone has to start.

4. Young people from around the world are getting moving

In many countries, young men and women have already set out on the journey. Some are organizing pilgrimages. Others have simply begun to take their relationship with God more seriously or to ask themselves what He wants from them.

This isn’t something “far off” meant only for a chosen few. It’s a real movement, made up of real faces, of people with their own doubts, desires, and stories.

You, too, are part of this young Church that is on the move. And it doesn’t matter whether or not you go to Rome. What matters is that you begin the journey.

Spoiler: they weren’t perfect, and they didn’t have it all figured out. But they took the first step. And that already counts.

5. What does winning Jubilee grace look like?

Good question. It means opening yourself to a tremendous grace: a plenary indulgence.

It’s like God is saying directly to you, “Let’s do a deep clean and start fresh.”

To receive it, you need:
– A sincere confession (even though it can be difficult)
– A heartfelt Communion
– A prayer for the Pope
– A concrete act of charity
– And a visit to a designated Jubilee church (your diocese can tell you which one)

Here’s a more detailed explanation.